{"id":10828,"date":"2010-03-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-24T00:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T00:13:13","slug":"march-23-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/march-23-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 23 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-bill-oreilly21-2010mar21,0,4533615.story\">O&#8217;Reilly is a moderate<\/a>. Oh, right, that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Mayor Villaraigosa is arguing that if the Council overturns <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/villaraigosa-warns-of-bankruptcy-if-la-council-blocks-power-rate-hike.html\">power rate increases by the DWP<\/a> the City of Los Angeles will be in desperate fiscal straits.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Level the Playing Field <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/03\/level-the-playi-1.html\">raised almost a quarter of a million dollars<\/a>, and will probably get a bunch more to air the Meg-a-Tar ads on TV.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSU is pushing high schools and its own students in the hopes of <a href=\"http:\/\/educatedguess.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/csus-new-tack-to-cut-remediation\/\">reducing the need for remediation when they arrive on campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-bill-oreilly21-2010mar21,0,4533615.story\">O&#8217;Reilly is a moderate<\/a>. Oh, right, that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Mayor Villaraigosa is arguing that if the Council overturns <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/villaraigosa-warns-of-bankruptcy-if-la-council-blocks-power-rate-hike.html\">power rate increases by the DWP<\/a> the City of Los Angeles will be in desperate fiscal straits.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Level the Playing Field <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/03\/level-the-playi-1.html\">raised almost a quarter of a million dollars<\/a>, and will probably get a bunch more to air the Meg-a-Tar ads on TV.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSU is pushing high schools and its own students in the hopes of <a href=\"http:\/\/educatedguess.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/csus-new-tack-to-cut-remediation\/\">reducing the need for remediation when they arrive on campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2OE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}